Knowing the coupons that will be offered in the upcoming Sunday coupon inserts makes it really nice to determine how many newspapers you’ll want to buy. If the inserts have the coupons you really want, you’ll know to get more papers! Keep in mind that inserts can vary by region, so this preview shows us what inserts may be in your insert.

NO COUPON INSERTS THIS WEEKEND. There are no inserts on holiday weekends and Monday is President’s Day.

Spend some extra time with your family! But if you really want some coupons in the meantime, check out our printable coupons HERE.

It’s Valentine’s Day week. The day most of the world seems to celebrate love. But the GREATEST love took place over two thousand years ago on a hill called Golgatha. Also known as Calvary. God Who Himself IS love took the form of a human born to a virgin and grew up as the only sinless human ever. His name was and is Jesus. Why was it the greatest love ever? Remember the fall in the garden of Eden? Where Adam and Eve were deceived by satan and ate the fruit God forbid them to eat? There had been no sin and no knowledge of what sin was until then. But with the fall came the worse consequence of all to mankind. Separation from God. If you’ve read the book of Genesis you’ll remember that after God created Adam, He used to walk in the garden with Adam in the cool of the evening. Can you imagine??? This is the same God who lit up Moses’ face so brightly from just being in His presence on Mount Sinai that he had to wear a veil over his face because the Israelites couldn’t handle it. That wasn’t a problem before the fall. The longer the earth went on with mankind being fruitful and multiplying, the more sinful we’ve become. We as humans have been separated from God ever since.

That’s where the greatest love came in. While Israel wandered in the wilderness and up through the history of the world till the time of Christ, there had to be a blood sacrifice to cover man’s sins and make him right with God. It was an imperfect animal that had to be sacrificed on a regular basis and it was always only temporary. God knew nothing but absolute perfection could be a perfect sacrifice to bridge the gap between Himself and His creation whom He loved and wanted reconciled with.

So He came to earth in the form of His Son, Jesus (Yeshua in Hebrew) and became the perfect sacrifice for us all when He hung on the cross and gave up His life for us all. When Jesus hung on the cross after being betrayed, spat upon, beaten beyond recognition, and mocked, He didn’t only die (though that was brutal enough!). He took on the sin of every human being who would ever walk the face of the earth all at once. God the Father turned His back on Him. Jesus had always had perfect communion with His Father and at this moment, God the Father turned His back on Him for that moment in time because Jesus took on all the sin of mankind and God the Father couldn’t stand to look upon sin. Besides…this was the culmination of His plan from the beginning of time. Jesus took on my sin and He took on your sin. But it didn’t end there! Three days later after being buried in a tomb, the stone rolled away and He rose again! After a period of time with his disciples and others he ascended to the Father where He always remains making intercession for us.

Perfect love. No human could ever demonstrate the kind of love Jesus has for us. I encourage us all to remember that today. When you see the hearts and symbols of love, I encourage you to consider the greatest love ever. Jesus’ love for you and I.

Like I said…He bridged the gap between the Father and man – you and I. Like any bridge however, it is placed into position but you still have to take the step to cross to the other side. You have to place your faith in Jesus as your savior and Lord, putting aside belief in any other god or idol. Ask Him to forgive you of your sin. Ask Him to come into your heart and life, confess that you accept that He is Lord and that He died for you and ask Him to cleanse you of the sin we all have and to help you live like He would have you live according to the Bible.

Firstly, I want to apologize for the appearancae of the blog’s layout. My blog theme’s creative team released an update and it threw the layout all out of whack. I’m still trying to figure out a fix and am also waiting to hear back (I hope) from a plea on the WordPress site where I asked for help. Prayers appreciated!

Secondly, I’d like to remind you that if you like the things I post but are not a couponer and don’t want to see the coupon posts, please follow my other blog at SincerelySapphire.com . It’s the same content without the coupon posts

Joel Rosenberg:

Joel is very intelligent and up to date on current events involving Israel (where he and his family now live), the Middle East, Russia, and others. I own every book he’s written and have learned a great deal from him. You can find his books HERE, which I highly recommend!

Joel has a new book coming out in a few weeks called The Kremlin Conspiracy I’ve already pre-ordered on Amazon ? Check it out! –>

Lamb and Lion Ministries (David Reagan and Nathan Jones):

The Hal Lindsey Report:

(Find Hal’s recent videos there on his web site. A lot of videos of his are being posted to YouTube that are old videos but given the current date. I’m going to start getting it from his web site. I can’t embed the video into my blog post here, but you can click on the screenshot above to pull up the current video in a new tab.)

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m the admin of a growing group on Facebook called, “Christian Planner, Journal, and Craft Fellowship“. Seeing how many of us have hit the winter blahs, I thought I’d perk things up by offering a monthly doodling challenge. Many of our members would like to improve our drawing skills and I think the practice a monthly doodling challenge will give us can go a long way in doing that. Besides…doodling is fun! Right?

So here we go. The first 7 days are empty because I’m just starting this on the 8th.

Click on the image below to pull up the full-size pdf file for printing.

If you follow this challenge on Instagram, I’d love for you to use the following hashtags so we can share the challenge with each other as we go along!

Looking for supplies for your doodling? I love using Prismacolor Premier colored pencils and Amazon has the best price going for them! You can find that here. Click on the size you want more information about:

I don’t recommend getting a kit lower than the 72-count tin. I found that out the hard way when my first tin of them was the 48-count and there are no grays in it.

(These are affiliate links meaning that should you click on these links and purchase these I will earn a very small commission which I will put towards the web hosting fee to keep my blog online. I only share items that I can honestly recommend myself and have used myself and love.)

This time of year many Christian women tend to choose a “word of the year” they feel the Lord has spoken to them to focus on. This year the word the Lord has given me is, “Shepherd”. I think mainly because my earthly father was very harsh and could be quite hateful at times, so I’ve struggled with my view of my heavenly Father. He has been whispering to me how He is my daddy (Abba, Father). He is my shepherd who leads me, guides me, and protects me; and not only that, but He wants me to completely relax in His presence. My earthly father could be loving at times, but due to the times he was harsh, I found myself always on guard. Ready to be lashed out at. My heavenly Father doesn’t want that for me. He wants me to be relaxed in His presence, and at peace. He wants me to see Him as my refuge and my safe harbor in the storm.

So with that in mind, I’m trying to remember to focus on being always in His presence, because I am. He is always with me.

In that light, I recently read a devotional You Version that I’d like to share with you here:

What we discovered in Day One, was that Brother Lawrence was just a simple cook with a straightforward practice. In his own words, he believed, “We should establish ourselves in a sense of God’s presence by continually conversing with Him.” In Day Two, we saw that love must be the goal of all our spiritual practice, if any other motivation uproots love then we’ve missed the point. With this preliminary foundation poured, we’re now ready to look at the practice itself. How do we make a start in practicing the presence of God? Let’s take it in three steps:

Recognize God Is Already Present

The first step is to recognize that God is already present where we are. Remember the story of Jesus walking to Emmaus with two of his disciples? He was present among them but they didn’t recognize Him. Have we recognized Him? Have we acknowledged that He’s already with us? Brother Lawrence helps us see this when he writes:

“All we have to do is to recognize God as being intimately present within us. Then we may speak directly to Him every time we need to ask for help, to know His will in moments of uncertainty, and to do whatever He wants us to do in a way that pleases Him. We should offer our work to Him before we begin and thank Him afterward for the privilege of having done it for His sake.”

Before we begin our next work day, perhaps we could write out the following prayer, offered by Lawrence, and place it in the path of our work.

“My God, since You are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me the grace to remain with You, in Your presence.”

Name Our Pots And Pans

How do we spend our days? What’s in our hands? For Brother Lawrence, he spent his time in a kitchen preparing meals and cleaning pots and pans. What are our pots and pans? What is the work that’s right in front of us, for God wants to work with us. Brother Lawrence writes:

Lord of all pots and pans and things,

since I’ve no time to be a great saint

by doing lovely things…

make me a saint by getting meals,

and washing up the plates.

Warm all the kitchen with Thy Love,

and light it with Thy peace;

forgive me all my worrying,

and make my grumbling cease.

Thou who didst love to give men food,

in room, or by the sea,

accept the service that I do,

I do it unto Thee.

Amen.

It is in the details, the nuts and bolts, the ins and outs, where God truly wants to work with us. The second step in practicing the presence of God is to claim our work for God, to acknowledge He wants to work with us, whether that’s selling cars, writing code, keeping children, or building homes. It’s in our actual work, the menial and the momentous, that God uses to shape us more and more into the image of His Son.

Speak To God Continually Throughout Your Day

The final step is simple and at the same time difficult: we have a continuous conversation with God as we move through our day. It’s simple because we’re used to making conversation, we do it everyday. It’s difficult because, on the whole, we’ve not been taught to chat with God as intimately as a friend and co-worker. Brother Lawrence writes,

“During my work, I would always continue to speak to the Lord as though He were right with me, offering Him my services and thanking Him for His assistance. Also, at the end of my work, I used to examine it carefully. If I found good in it, I thanked God. If I noticed faults, I asked His forgiveness without being discouraged, and then went on with my work, still dwelling in Him.”

To help us build this practice of a continuous conversation with God, there are a couple triggers we can use:

1. If any good thing, large or small, happens in our day we can immediately, right where we are, thank God for it. We can say it out loud, quietly under our breath, or if we’re in the middle of a conversation we can think it in our minds.

2. If any thing unpleasant happens in our day, ask God what he may be wanting to show us. Is there something in us that He wants to change or transform?

Brother Lawrence wrote so much for us to consider and implement. What we’ve explored in this plan today, is that there are three steps to begin practicing God’s presence: the first is to recognize He’s already present with us; the second is to acknowledge He wants to work with us in the actual tasks and duties we’re responsible for; and finally, we simply have a conversation with Him as we move through our day. Next, we’ll be looking at what happens when we meet resistance or make mistakes, we’ll discover how we keep one foot in front of the other as we learn to build the practice of His presence in the rhythm of our life.

Reflection

1. Are there good things that pop into your day regularly that you can thank God for? What are they?

2. Think through your full day. Are there other times that would make for good triggers for chatting with God? What would they be? What would you say?

Practice

A pulse check is one simple way of practicing His presence. We can experiment with this little discipline anywhere. Here’s how it works: Close your eyes and place your thumb on your pulse, once you find it, sit quietly for sixty seconds. Keeping your eyes closed, thank God for sustaining you, for keeping you alive, for He holds all of our lives in His hands. Then, as you feel the rhythmic pulse, imagine you’re listening to the heartbeat of Jesus. Sense His immediate presence. Feel His nearness. Imagine Him at your side. As you move beyond the sixty seconds invite Jesus to remain with you throughout your day. Teaching you how to practice His presence all day long.

“Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord . Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord .” –Jeremiah 23:24 ESV

“And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’ ” –Acts 17:26‭-‬28 ESV

This devotional led me to order Brother Lawrence’s book here:

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World events and prophecy happenings don’t go on hold though, so let’s see what has progressed during my down time —>

Joel Rosenberg:

Joel is very intelligent and up to date on current events involving Israel (where he and his family now live), the Middle East, Russia, and others. I own every book he’s written and have learned a great deal from him. You can find his books HERE, which I highly recommend!

Joel has a new book coming out in March called The Kremlin Conspiracy I’ve already pre-ordered on Amazon ? Check it out! –>

Lamb and Lion Ministries (David Reagan and Nathan Jones):

The Hal Lindsey Report:

(Find Hal’s recent videos there on his web site. A lot of videos of his are being posted to YouTube that are old videos but given the current date. I’m going to start getting it from his web site. I can’t embed the video into my blog post here, but you can click on the screenshot above to pull up the current video in a new tab.)

So this past week and a half I put everything else on hold while caring for my sickie kiddo. That meant no blogging, no graphics work, just sitting in bed next to my sweet boy in between changing sheets, encouraging him to drink something, giving him a steady supply of alternated liquid Tylenol and liquid Motrin.

Have I mentioned that my son is 14 but he has autism? Totally non-verbal. He can’t tell me what his symptoms are, so I have to play junior detective to try to figure out what’s wrong.

It all started a week ago last Tuesday when he came home from school with a note that said he didn’t eat breakfast or lunch. I knew something was up when he didn’t eat at least lunch. He’s never been big on breakfast foods.

Later that evening his fever started to climb…and climb….and climb. ugh. The next morning off to the doctor we went. That could have been the start of recovery, but the doctor probabaly misdiagnosed him.

Armed with a prescription for Tamiflu (and NO nose swab to see if it tested positive for the flu -insert very angry mommy face here), back home we went. Actually the hubs took him to the doctor while letting me get some sleep after being awake all night with my son.

Three days later after the fever remains around 103.7 and a side effect of the Tamiflu causes my son to rub his left eye so much it’s red and swollen and he’s just miserable (and mommy is a nervous wreck), and it being the weekend, off to an Urgent Care clinic we go. This time the doctor does swab his nose for the flu but it comes back negative. He says my son COULD have had the flu and it’s on it’s way out and so it isn’t presenting as positive now and now he could have a secondary infection. Off to the pharmacy for a Z-pack and back home to bed with more liquids, cool wet rags, Tylenol and Motrin for more rest. More worry. That fever stayed right around 103.4 other than the period of time the Tylenol and Motrin are working. The temperature would drop and my hopes would soar just for the fever to soar again.

Maybe he had strep (we won’t know…he wouldn’t open his mouth for the doctor to swab), maybe some other bug. I only know he had a very high fever, he was really sick and I was really scared.

Anyway…a week and a half later, my son is finally almost back to his sweet, healthy self. He’s still tired and seemingly weak, but the fever is gone and I’m getting an occasional smile.

The beast of autism makes these the most difficult moments for we autism mommies. Not being able to know when something is wrong with our kiddos is the worst thing ever. If they’re non-verbal anyway. Did he have a sore throat? Headache? Body ache? I have no idea! I only know he was burning up and miserable. No throwing up, thank goodness. Diarrhea on and off. It’s only the obvious symptoms we can know about.

If his primary care doctor had given him the attention he needed, he could have had the antibiotics to help him kick the high fever three days earlier! There really needs to be primary care doctors who specialize in caring for children on the spectrum who can’t speak for themselves!!

Ok, just a vent I know I have a lot of autism mommy friends out there fully understand and can relate. We have to be our kid’s best advocates – even with their doctors! argh!

But I wouldn’t trade my sweet boy for anything on the planet and as long as the Lord puts breath in my lungs I will look out for him and thank God for every moment with my biggest earthly blessing -my son.

So now to catch up with blogs, vlogs, vids, and graphics

This is usually a wedding song, but I think it’s even more appropriate for someone’s child:

This post marks one year of Sincerely Sapphire’s scripture writing plans! I’m so pleased with how eager so many of you are to get the next month’s plan God is moving and drawing souls to Himself -both those already His and those who are seeking to know more about Him. It is my honor to provide these plans for you every month. I am humbled to be used to the Lord as a tool to get you into His Word. I’d love to hear back from how you are using the plans, and I’d love to see how you decorate your writings (if you choose to do so, which of course it’s not necessary). Just get into the Bible and drink freely from the water of life!

Click on the image below to pull up the full-sized PDF file for printing –>